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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
testing (comparative more testing, superlative most testing)
- Difficult; tough.
2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC:England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.
Noun
testing (countable and uncountable, plural testings)
- The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.
2011, Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke:The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur.
Hyponyms
Translations
the act of conducting a test
References
Verb
testing
- present participle and gerund of test
Derived terms
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From English testing, present participle of test, from Middle English test, teste, borrowed from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”).
Pronunciation
Verb
testing
- to test someone or something
Noun
testing
- a testing; the act of conducting a test
Indonesian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English testing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: tès‧ting
Noun
testing (plural testing-testing)
- testing
- Synonyms: pengujian, percobaan
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